The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 eBook

He should not, having enjoyed anything become so attached
to it as to desire to have it once more. One should
take only earth and water and pebbles and leaves and
flowers and fruits, that are not owned by any body,
as they come, when one desires to do any act.
One should not live by the occupation of an artisan,
nor should one covet gold. One should not hate,
nor teach (one that does not seek to be taught); nor
should one have any belongings. One should eat
only what is consecrated by faith. One should
abstain from controversies. One should follow
that course of conduct which has been said to be nectarine.
One should never be attached to anything, and should
never enter into relations of intimacy with any creature.
One should not perform, nor cause to perform, any
such action as involves expectation of fruit or destruction
of life or the hoarding of wealth or articles.
Rejecting all objects, content with a very little,
one should wander about (homeless) pursuing an equal
behaviour towards all creatures mobile and immobile.
One should never annoy another being; not should one
be annoyed with another. He who is trusted by
all creatures is regarded as the foremost of those
persons that understand Emancipation. One should
not think of the past, nor feel anxious about the
future. One should disregard the present, biding
time, with concentrated mind.[141] One should never
defile anything by eye, mind, or speech. Nor should
one do anything that is wrong, openly or in secret.
Withdrawing one’s senses like the tortoise withdrawing
its limbs, one should attenuate one’s senses
and mind, cultivate a thoroughly peaceful understanding,
and seek to master every topic. Freed from all
pairs of opposites, never bending one’s head
in reverence, abstaining from the rites requiring
the utterance of Swaha, one should be free from mineness,
and egoism. With cleansed soul, one should never
seek to acquire what one has not and protect what one
has. Free from expectations, divested of qualities,
wedded to tranquillity, one should be free from all
attachments and should depend on none. Attached
to one’s own self and comprehending all topics,
one becomes emancipated without doubt. Those
who perceive the self, which is without hands and
feet and back, which is without head and without stomach,
which is free from the operation of all qualities,
which is absolute, untainted, and stable, which is
without smell, without taste, and touch, without colour,
and without sound, which is to be comprehended (by
close study), which is unattached, which is without
flesh, which is free from anxiety, unfading, and divine,
and, lastly, which though dwelling in a house resides
in all creatures, succeed in escaping death. There
the understanding reaches not, nor the senses, nor
the deities, nor the Vedas, nor sacrifices, nor the
regions (of superior bliss), nor penance, nor vows.
The attainment to it by those who are possessed of
knowledge is said to be without comprehension of symbols.